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UX and product design tools — Figma, Miro, analytics platforms, prototyping tools, and everything in your professional toolkit.
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Airtable for UX: research and operations
Airtable is a visual no-code database. How to use it as a research repository and for design operations, its plans and when another tool makes more sense.
Amplitude for Designers: What It Is, What It Measures, and When to Use It
Amplitude is a product analytics platform. What designers can do with funnels and retention, which plans it has today, and how to get started.
axe DevTools: Auditing Accessibility in the Browser and What It Misses
axe DevTools audits accessibility in the browser with the axe-core engine. What it checks, which plans it offers today, and what needs manual review.
Axure RP: Prototypes With Complex Logic, No Code Required
What Axure RP is in 2026, when it pays off compared with Figma, how its cases, variables, and dynamic panels work, and which licenses its official page lists.
Balsamiq: Low-Fidelity Wireframes on Purpose
What Balsamiq is, why it draws on purpose in a rough style, what changed in 2026 with its desktop version, and when to use it instead of Figma.
Condens
Discover what Condens is, a powerful Research Repository platform that helps you centralize, analyze, and share user knowledge across your entire organization.
Dovetail
Learn what Dovetail is and how this user research platform lets you organize, analyze, and share qualitative data to build a long-term research memory.
dscout: remote diary studies and AI-assisted research
dscout is a remote research platform for diary studies and interviews. Learn what it does, how a study runs on it, how it is quoted, and when it fits.
FigJam
Figma's whiteboarding tool for collaborative ideation and synthesis—seamlessly integrated with your design files.
Figma Dev Mode: handoff inside Figma
Dev Mode is Figma's space to inspect designs, measurements and code without leaving the file. Which plans and seats include it and what it offers for handoff.
Figma for UX Designers: A Complete Guide
How to use Figma for wireframing, prototyping, collaboration, and design handoff.
Framer for designers: websites with design and code
Framer is a website builder with a design canvas, CMS and hosting included. What it offers today, which plans it lists and when it beats Webflow or Figma.
Google Analytics
Understand what Google Analytics is and how you can use this web analytics tool to obtain quantitative data about your users' behavior and inform your design decisions.
Google Forms and Sheets for Low-Budget Research
Google Forms collects responses and Google Sheets organizes them. How to link them, which question types exist, what to watch with files, and when to switch.
Hotjar for UX
A behavior analytics tool that shows where users click, scroll, and spend time—visual data about real user behavior.
Jira for Designers Without the Pain: Issue Types, Backlogs, and Figma
How to use Jira as a designer without wasting time: issue types, statuses, backlogs, the Figma integration per its help page, and when another tool fits.
Linear for Designers: Issues, Projects, and Cycles Without Losing the Design
How designers can use Linear: issues, cycles, and projects, the Figma integration, and the plans its official page lists, with the limits of each feature.
Lookback: moderated remote interviews and usability tests
Lookback records moderated and unmoderated interviews and usability tests, with transcripts and findings. What it does, what it costs, and when to pick another.
Loom: communicating design asynchronously with video
Loom records your screen to explain designs and ask for feedback without meetings. How to use it, what each 2026 plan includes, and when to pick another tool.
Lottie: Lightweight Animations for Web and Apps, and Their Limits
Lottie is a JSON animation format for web, iOS, and Android. What it supports from After Effects, what it doesn't, how to control file weight, and alternatives.
Lyssna
A lightweight feedback collection tool that gathers user responses through simple links—no installations required.
Maze
Learn how to use Maze, the rapid testing platform to validate your Figma prototypes, obtain quantitative usability metrics, and make faster design decisions.
Microsoft Clarity: Free Heatmaps and Session Recordings
Microsoft Clarity is free and offers heatmaps, session recordings and Copilot. What it includes today, how to protect sensitive data and what consent requires.
Miro
An infinite digital whiteboard for collaborative design, diagramming, and team alignment—essential for distributed teams.
Mixpanel
Discover what Mixpanel is, the powerful event-based product analytics tool that helps you deeply understand user behavior, retention, and feature adoption.
Notion for UX
A documentation and knowledge base tool that centralizes UX docs, research, design systems, and team processes—your design system's home.
Optimal Workshop
A suite of tools for information architecture validation—card sort, tree test, and click tests reveal how users organize and find information.
Penpot: the open-source alternative to Figma for design teams
Penpot is an open-source design platform with CSS Grid, components and tokens you can host yourself. What it offers, what it costs and when it fits.
PostHog: Product Analytics for Small Teams
PostHog brings product analytics, session recordings, heatmaps, and feature flags together. What it includes, its monthly free allowance, and when to self-host.
Principle
A Mac-only animation prototyping tool that makes complex animations easy—perfect for microinteractions and transitions.
ProtoPie
A prototyping tool for complex interactions—animations, gestures, variables, and logic without code.
Rive: Interactive Animation for Products Without Coding Every State
Rive is an animation tool with state machines that respond to the user. What it does well, what it costs, and when a simpler alternative is the better choice.
Stark: Accessibility Inside Figma for Checking Contrast and Color Blindness
Stark is a Figma plugin that checks contrast, simulates color blindness, and tests focus and touch targets. What it does, what it costs in 2026, and its limits.
Storybook
Learn what Storybook is and how this development tool lets you build, test, and document UI components in isolation, creating a common language between design and development.
Tokens Studio: Design Tokens from Figma, Step by Step
Tokens Studio is a Figma plugin for creating design tokens and syncing them with GitHub or GitLab. What it does, how to set it up, and which plans exist.
Typeform for UX Surveys: Logic, Limits, and Biases
How to use Typeform for UX surveys: conditional logic, plan limits, data privacy, and the question-wording mistakes the tool will not fix for you.
Useberry
Discover Useberry, an unmoderated usability testing platform for getting quick feedback and quantitative data on your Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD prototypes.
UserTesting.com
Learn what UserTesting.com is, the leading platform for getting video feedback from real users, allowing you to run usability tests with highly specific participant profiles.
Webflow for product designers: sites with visual control
Webflow lets you design, publish and host sites without coding. What it offers a product designer, how to learn it and when to choose it over Framer or Figma.
Whimsical: Fast Flows and Wireframes for Ideation
Whimsical is a whiteboard for diagrams, low-fidelity wireframes, and mind maps. What it suits in ideation and flows, its plans, and when to move to Figma.
Zeroheight
Discover Zeroheight, the platform that lets you create centralized, professional web documentation for your Design System, syncing your Figma and Storybook components.